Focus on Species: Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
Unknown to science until 1901, Okapis are native to the rainforests of central Africa, with remaining populations only existing in the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, primarily in the Ituri Rainforest.
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Post Series: The Congo
- 1.Plastic bag as a condom in Congo – vpro Metropolis
- 2.These Rare Giraffes Were Killed Just for Their Tails (Exclusive Video) | National Geographic
- 3.Okapi: The Forest Giraffe with a Prehensile Tongue
- 4.Focus on Species: Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
- 5.Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Cute Bonobos | National Geographic
- 6.Bonobo: the Female Alpha | National Geographic
- 7.Protecting Congo’s Free-Loving Bonobos (2010)
- 8.Bonobo Loves Being Tickled | Animals In Love | BBC
- 9.Bonobos: One Of Humankind’s Closest Relatives & What They Can Teach Us | TIME
- 10.The Bonobos Ape (Nature Documentary)
- 11.Sex and Fruit: The Sweet Life of Bonobos | Nat Geo Live
- 12.Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos
- 13.What Bonobos can teach humans about being human | Irene Magafan | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon
- 14.Endangered Apes That Make Love Not War | Project Earth
- 15.Congo, My Precious. The Curse of the coltan mines in Congo
- 16.The High Price of Gold – D.R. Congo
- 17.Conflicted: The Fight Over Congo’s Minerals | Fault Lines
- 18.Congo: Blood, gold and mobile phones
- 19.Inside the murky business of cobalt mining in DR Congo
- 20.Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo
- 21.CBS News finds children mining cobalt in Democratic Republic of Congo
- 22.Dangerous Cobalt Mines in Congo Pose Challenges for Big Tech
- 23.Blood, Sweat, and Batteries: Inside Congo’s Cobalt Mines I Fortune
- 24.Cobalt mining for phones: How you could be holding a product of child labour
- 25.Special report: Revisiting the cobalt-mining boys
- 26.Boy describes struggle of mining cobalt in Democratic Republic of Congo